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Korean · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "하다" in Korean?
ha-da, two open beats. A soft ㅎ at the front and a genuinely voiced d in the middle.
hada
A flat two-beat rhythm. This is the most productive verb in the language, forming hundreds of compounds, and in nearly all of them the 하 either weakens between voiced sounds or fuses with a preceding stop into an aspirated consonant -- so the citation form is the calmest version of it you will ever hear.
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오늘 저녁에 뭐 해요?
Oneul jeonyeoge mwo haeyo?
What are you doing tonight?
Listen: 오늘 저녁에 뭐 해요?
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오늘 저녁에 뭐 해요? uses the conjugated 해요 rather than the dictionary form, and the ㄱ of 저녁 moves into the particle and voices, giving jeo-nyeo-ge. The question rides on rising pitch at the end, since 뭐 itself does not change shape to mark it.
Where English speakers slip
Over-aspirating the ㅎ is the giveaway, because English pushes more air through h than Korean does. Ease off it. The other error is hardening the ㄷ into a t, when it sits between vowels and should stay soft -- and once that habit gets carried into compounds like 일하다 or 좋아하다, every one of them starts sounding clipped.